Emily Gerard

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(Jane) Emily Gerard ( May 7, 1849 in Ancrum - January 11, 1905 in Vienna ) is a 19th century writer from Scotland who lived in Austria-Hungary . Today she is best known for the fact that her lyrics inspired Bram Stoker to write Dracula .

Life

Emily Gerard was born in Scotland to Archibald Gerard von Longsoles and Euphemia Erskine Robison. The maternal grandfather was Sir John Robison. She also had a brother and a sister, Dorothea , married. Longard by Longgarde.

On October 14, 1869, she married the knight Miecislaus von Laszowski Kratowice ( Polish: Mieczysław Łaszowski , 1831 in Lemberg - December 7, 1904 in Vienna) in Salzburg, a Pole who was twenty years older and served in the Austro-Hungarian Army . Together they had two sons, Arthur Ritter von Łaszowski Kratowice and Alfred Ritter von Łaszowski Kratowice. Her name appears in different variants as Emily Gerard , Johanna von Laszowska , Emilie Laszowska or Emily de Laszowska Gerard .

She acquired her knowledge of the Transylvanian culture and customs in the period of 1883 and 1885, when her man of honor was stationed in Sibiu and Kronstadt . Her book The Land Beyond the Forest is said to have inspired Bram Stoker to create Dracula . The term “ Nosferatu ” is also assigned to her (see there). She reviewed German literature for the Times , as she grew up in Tyrol . She spent most of her life in Austria . Here she made friends with Mark Twain , to whom The Extermination of Love (1901) is dedicated. She died shortly after her husband in Vienna, where her estate was auctioned off by the Dorotheum .

Works

Works written as "ED Gerard" with her sister

  • Reata; or What's in a Name , Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1880.
  • Beggar My Neighbor , Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1882.
  • The Waters of Hercules , Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1885.
  • To. William Blackwood & Sons, London & Edinburgh, 1890
  • A Sensitive Plant , 1891.

As "E. Gerard"

  • Transylvanian Superstitions. In: The Nineteenth Century Vol. 18, (1885) p. 128-144
  • The Land Beyond the Forest: Facts, Figures, and Fancies from Transylvania , New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888.
  • Until , 1890
  • A Secret Mission , 1891
  • The Voice of a Flower 1893
  • A Foreigner , 1896.
  • An Electric Shock , 1897.
  • Tragedy of a Nose , 1898.
  • The Extermination of Love: A Fragmentary Study in Erotics , Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1901.
  • The Heron's Tower , 1904.
  • Honor's Glassy Bubble, A Story of Three Generations , 1906. (Published posthumously.)

German-language publications

  • ED Gerard: Loot the neighbor. Novel. Approved translation by Johannes Holm. JP Bachem, Cologne, no year.
  • ED Gerard: The Mexican. Novel. Approved translation by Johannes Holm. JP Bachem, Cologne, no year.
  • Concitta's portrait. In: Katholische Warte, issue 15, 1892
  • A secret broadcast . Novel. JP Bachem, Cologne 1894
  • The flower's vengeance. Published by Rudolf Abt, Munich, 1899
  • Magda's cow . In: Wiener Abendpost , to be continued from May 1, 1899 ( online )
  • A drama in blue. Novella. In: Wiener Zeitung, to be continued from January 15, 1900
  • A foreigner. In: (News) Welt Blatt, to be continued from February 8, 1903 ( online )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 25 March 2015: With Nosferatu in Transylvania: Preview of Dorothea and Emily Gerard (Böcklinstrasse 53 and Neulinggasse 9). March 25, 2015, accessed on January 8, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ ANNO, Lavanttaler Bote, 1904-03-26, page 2. Accessed January 8, 2019 .
  3. ↑ ANNO, Wiener Zeitung, 1904-12-09, page 9. Retrieved on January 8, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Salzburg Chronicle, November 8, 1869, p. 4.
  5. ^ ANNO, Neue Freie Presse, 1905-01-12, page 20. Accessed on January 8, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Gmerek 2005
  7. ^ The Scottish writer who inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula
  8. ↑ Eccles 1899
  9. ^ ANNO, Das Vaterland, 1905-04-23, page 22. Retrieved January 8, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Reata; or What's in a Name Vol. 1 (1880) William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London
  11. ↑ Reata; or What's in a Name Vol. 2 (1880) William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London
  12. ↑ Reata; or What's in a Name Vol. 3 (1880) William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London
  13. ↑ Beggar My Neighbor Vol. 1 (1882) Blackwood
  14. ^ Beggar My Neighbor Vol. 2 (1882) Blackwood
  15. ↑ Beggar My Neighbor Vol. 3 (1882) Blackwood
  16. ^ The Waters of Hercules (1885) Blackwood
  17. ^ The Nineteenth Century Vol. 18 (1885) Kegan, Paul, Trench & Company, London
  18. ^ The Land Beyond the Forest: Facts, Figures, and Fancies from Transylvania (1888) Blackwood, UK
  19. ^ A Secret Mission (1891) Harper & Brothers, New York
  20. ^ The Voice of a Flower (1893) D. Appleton and Co., New York
  21. ↑ The Extermination of Love: A Fragmentary Study in Erotics Vol. 1 (1901) Berhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig
  22. ↑ The Extermination of Love: A Fragmentary Study in Erotics Vol. 2 (1901) Berhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig
  23. ^ The Heron's Tower (1904) Methuen & Co., London
  24. ↑ ANNO, Wiener Zeitung, 1894-12-18, page 19. Retrieved January 8, 2019 .
  25. ↑ A drama in blue (online)

swell

  • Hot, Lokke. "Madame Dracula: The Life of Emily Gerard." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts , 10 (1999): 174-186.
  • Black, Adam and Charles Black. Who Was Who, 1897-1916 , 4th ed., V. 1, London: Adam and Charles Black, [1920] 1953: p. 270-271.
  • Katarzyna Gmerek: Emily i Dorothea Gerard - nieznane pisarki szkockie w Polsce . S. X-4-c. 2005. Retrieved July 21, 2017.
  • Charlotte O'Conor Eccles: University of Notre Dame Archives Calendar . S. 13 February 21, 1899. Retrieved March 23, 2007.
  • Michie, Christopher Young, The Practice of Forestry, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1888: p. 10 of Blackwood Catalog section.
  • New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors
  • Teuceanu, Radu, "Un Occidental Despre Transilvania: Jane Emily Gerard, The Land Beyond the Forest, 1888." Brukenthal. Acta Musei, I. 1 (2006): 243-251.

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personal data
SURNAME Gerard, Emily
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gerard, Jane Emily (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Austrian author
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Ancrum
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1905
Place of death Vienna